Day in Pictures, Jan. 2, 2014

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By By Mike Moffitt

on January 2, 2014 1:55 PM

Photo: Autumn Driscoll/Connecticut Post

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And this is me with hypothermia ... A New Year's Day reveler in South Queensferry, Scotland, takes a selfie of her goosebumps at the Loony Dook Swim in the River Forth.

And this is me with hypothermia ... A New Year's Day reveler in South Queensferry, Scotland, takes a selfie of her goosebumps at the Loony Dook Swim in the River Forth.

Photo: Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images

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Yes, he lost the bet: We don't know the nature of the wager Wes Sumner made with his wife, but as the winner, she got to pick out this lovely bikini top for him to wear during the Save the Children Mossman Polar Plunge in Westport, Conn. less

Yes, he lost the bet: We don't know the nature of the wager Wes Sumner made with his wife, but as the winner, she got to pick out this lovely bikini top for him to wear during the Save the Children Mossman ... more

Photo: Autumn Driscoll, Connecticut Post

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It gave him a baleful look: Provoked one too many times by the pile of hay, 6-month-old Akuma rips it to shreds in his enclosure at the Arche-Noah Zoo in Braunschweig, Germany.

It gave him a baleful look: Provoked one too many times by the pile of hay, 6-month-old Akuma rips it to shreds in his enclosure at the Arche-Noah Zoo in Braunschweig, Germany.

Photo: Tobias Kleinschmidt, AFP/Getty Images

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Enjoying the show: A Brazilian relaxes in the warm waters of Copacabana Beach as fireworks explode minutes after midnight Jan. 1 in Rio de Janeiro.

Enjoying the show: A Brazilian relaxes in the warm waters of Copacabana Beach as fireworks explode minutes after midnight Jan. 1 in Rio de Janeiro.

Where did the snow go?! Kamil Stoch of Poland soars over a landscape that looks more like spring than winter during the FIS Ski Jumping
World Cup Vierschanzentournee in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Where did the snow go?! Kamil Stoch of Poland soars over a landscape that looks more like spring than winter during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Vierschanzentournee in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Photo: Stanko Gruden/Agence Zoom, Getty Images

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Likes movies, long walks on the beach and spooning: Nobody can say Etibar Elchiyev isn't an attractive guy, not with 53 metal spoons magnetized to his body. The Georgian was trying to break his own Guinness World Record for "most spoons on a human body" in Tbilisi. less

Likes movies, long walks on the beach and spooning: Nobody can say Etibar Elchiyev isn't an attractive guy, not with 53 metal spoons magnetized to his body. The Georgian was trying to break his own Guinness ... more

Santa brought me a rotten gourd? We missed the animals of Safaripark Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek,
Netherlands, opening their presents under the tree on Christmas morning. Apparently the baboon was naughty, not nice. less

Santa brought me a rotten gourd? We missed the animals of Safaripark Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands, opening their presents under the tree on Christmas morning. Apparently the baboon was ... more